Friday, 18 July 2014

Eternal memory of Kim Il Sung

By New Worker

correspondent

Michael Chant,
Andy Brooks and Hyon Hak Bong

KIM
IL SUNG passed away on 8th July 1994 and the 20th
anniversary of his death was marked by commemorations across the Korean
peninsula and amongst the Korean overseas community all over the world. In Democratic
Korea mass national commemorations in the capital, Pyongyang, were matched by
similar events throughout the DPR Korea. In the occupied south patriotic and
communist organisations held secret commemorations in defiance of the draconian
laws of the puppet regime. And throughout the world communists gathered to
remember the outstanding Korean communist revolutionary and thinker.

London was no exception and the
commemorations started at the AGM of the UK Korean Friendship Association on
Saturday 28th June. This was followed by

a
meeting of remembrance to mark the anniversary of the passing of President Kim
Il Sung on 5th July at the John Buckle Centre in south London
organised by the Friends of Korea committee. London DPRK ambassador Hyon Hak
Bong paid tribute to great leader Kim Il Sung, whose life dedicated to the
struggle of the Korean people spanned the 20th century. This was
followed by tributes from NCP leader Andy Brooks, RCPB (ML) general secretary
Michael Chant, John Macleod of the SLP and John Rainsborough from the Korea
Friendship Association.

Finally on 8th July Andy
Brooks and Daphne Liddle from the NCPCentral Committee laid flowers at the commemorative table at theformal ceremony at the DPRK embassy in London
in memory of Kim Il Sung.